What is a full metal jacket?

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  1. SCAI
     
    SCAI answered:
    "Full metal jacket" is a term doctors sometimes use when a long stent or a series of stents is implanted in a heart artery to keep it open. Multiple stents are used in patients with signs of cardiovascular disease stretching over long areas of an artery.

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    "Full metal jacket" is a term doctors sometimes use when a long stent or a series of stents is implanted in a heart artery to keep it open. Multiple stents are used in patients with signs of cardiovascular disease stretching over long areas of an... More